A New Jersey man vying for a seat on his local school board has dropped out of the race after racist Facebook posts. (UniversalImagesGroup / UIG via Getty Images)

A New Jersey man vying for a seat on his local school board has dropped out of the race after racist Facebook posts referring to black people as “animals” and “f--king monkeys” resurfaced.

Richard Jankowski, 51, withdrew his name from the running for a seat on the Monroe Township Board of Education Saturday, NJ.com reports.

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The Williamstown, N.J. resident’s offending Facebook posts, shared between 2013 and 2016, were uncovered by the New Jersey Globe.

Jankowski has since deleted his Facebook account, but screenshots published by the Globe show his vitriol toward everyone from LeBron James to President Obama, as well as his expletive-filled rants on various Black Lives Matter protests, from Ferguson in 2014 to Baltimore in 2015.

In a racist rant shared shortly after protests erupted in Ferguson, Mo. after the shooting death of Michael Brown, Jankowski wrote, “You godd--n animals in Missouri make me sick!”

“Another black criminal gets killed after assaulting a white cop and you pieces of s--t want justice?” he continued. “You are not Americans, you are animals who disgust me. You wonder why there is racism in this country? Get a f--king job and contribute you useless wastes of life instead of constantly committing crimes and protesting when you get what you deserve.”

He also spoke out during the protests in Baltimore, which emerged after the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, and of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin in 2012.

“So now I watch videos of the ‘protestors’ throwing trash cans and any other items at any white person they see… time to start firing bullets into these f--king monkeys and send them to their graves,” Jankowski wrote.

“When blacks make up 13% of the population and commit 75% of crime, it is NEVER about racial profiling, it’s about the facts,” he continued. “Call me a racist if you want but I’m a realist….stop committing crimes and you will be judged differently! YOU are the racists and the problem with this country.”

His anger wasn’t limited just to protests; he also took aim at LeBron James, who criticized the decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Brown, and at Barack Obama and Caitlyn Jenner.

“All you asses wake up, learning English comprehension, and understand the facts which show the officer was within his rights to fire on Brown,” he wrote of stars like James who spoke out about Wilson.

Jankowski also shared a meme that mocked Bruce Jenner’s transition into Caitlyn Jenner, and President Barack Obama’s sympathetic response to the 2015 shooting in Charleston, in which a white supremacist gunned down nine black people at a church.

He announced his decision to drop out of the race with a statement shared from a different person’s account, as his has since been deleted.

"I want you to know that I wrote those remarks in anger from what I have seen transpire through our country over the years," the statement said. "I acknowledge this is not an excuse for my actions."

Board Vice President James Henderson previously told NJ.com that it would be up to the voters to decide whether Jankowski deserved a spot on the board.